Timetravel - Flashbacks with Björn

Hello fellow toads and tadpoles, as this is my last prompts for toad I wanted us all to remember and
looking back. But not only remembering but the harsh reality of flashbacks. 

Copyright Björn Rudberg

A flashback is a memory that is so strong that it pulls you back in time to another moment, maybe
more pleasant than present or more horrific. That means that you stay in the same tense as the
rest of your poem (often present tense) 

To be able to pull you back you need to add a magic time-turner, a sensation that creates such a
vivid memory that you actually have traveled in time. 

For instance the scent of your grandmother’s cologne might pull you back into a childhood memory,
or a song on the radio might place you in the time you fell in love on the dance-floor. 

A soldier with PTSD can be back in the trenches again at the snap of a twig. 

It is crucial for flashbacks to define that trigger, What would pull you back in time?

To travel back into today I imagine you are pulled back with the same sense.

As you well know flashbacks are something we all experience from time to time. So also question
yourself… how did it change your present state of mind? Did it help you make a difficult decision?
Did it make you happier, sadder or angry?

When I took a class in creative writing I remember a fellow attendant remarking that a flashback
relates to a mere memory in the same way as a metaphor relates to a simile.

Your poem (or flash-prose) could be fiction or real. Any perspective as long as it's new for the
prompt.

Swim with care, the pond is deeper than you think.